[Coco] Program Wanted (no more BBS's!!??)

[farna at att.net]

Doesn't have to be a sad day, nor no more BBS's. The internet is faster, but I bet if you had a real BBS running on its own phone line you'd have people calling all day. With flat rate long distance, calling from across the country wouldn't be a problem at all! Someone should do that... would certainly be interesting once the word got out. Have one or two of those old multi-player on-line games up and running where you're only allowed to come in and make one or two moves a day. Would sure be nostalgic, and isn't that the rage today? 

The only problem I can see is dusting off the modem! I don't have a phone line in my house, and probably won't ever again. Well, it's there, but no phone service. I've got cable internet and already pay for cell phones... who needs a land line? It was cheaper for me to add some minutes rather than to install a phone. I suppose one of the internet phone programs would work, but they are generally designed to work with a microphone. Shouldn't be hard to create a program that will emulate a modem and place the call over a broadband connection -- for a programmer who knows about such tings! 

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------

> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:00:04 -0600
> From: "George's Coco Address" <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Program Wanted
> 
>  I'm reminded of the "OS-9 Level 2 BBS".. I still have it now, but it is 
> mostly useless except for some of the utilities that came with it.
> Daily, I use "dloadx", uloadx", "dloady", "uloady", depending on the file 
> type and size. The BBS system was quite remarkable inasmuch as it was fast 
> and fairly easy to configure.
>  It's sad that today, a BBS is history.
>